Word: gayness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Church's overview of the continuing frustrations and the emerging self-confidence of homosexuals today is based on dozens of interviews by TIME correspondents with legislators, educators, executives, clergy and other articulate members of the growing "gay" minority, and on the correspondents' firsthand observation of their lifestyle, from San Francisco's Castro Street to New York City's Christopher Street, from Macon, Ga., to Mankato, Minn. In exploring the new book's findings, Ruth Galvin learned from Masters and Johnson that gays and straights have more in common than perhaps most people thought. Says...
What followed, however, would have been remarkable if not unthinkable in Chicago or in many other major American cities just a few years ago. Gay Life, a local homosexual weekly, organized street patrols to stop the assaults. They were also aided by "straight" volunteers from neighborhood community associations. Moreover, they were helped by the Chicago police. Says a rather astonished Grant Ford, publisher of Gay Life: "The community groups came to our help right away. They saw us as neighbors rather than gays. The police were even more amazing. They were totally cooperative...
...what happened in New Town symbolizes a national trend that is changing the lives of the American minority that forms the gay society. Homosexual men and women are coming out of the closet as never before to live openly. They are colonizing areas of big cities as their own turf, operating bars and even founding churches in conservative small towns, and setting up a nationwide network of organizations to offer counseling and companionship to those gays-still the vast majority-who continue to conceal their sexual orientation. As in New Town, gay people still encounter suspicion and hostility, and occasionally...
...evolving status of gays, and the way they are perceived by heterosexuals, is all the more surprising because of the nature of the gay society. Homosexuals form the most amorphous and isolated -though also the most pervasive-of all American minorities. Blacks and Hispanics, for example, are unified to a large degree by physical characteristics, history, customs and often socioeconomic position. "We cut across every socioeconomic line, every racial line," says Jean O'Leary, co-leader of the National Gay Task Force. "We're in every profession you can imagine." Says Robert L. Livingston, a gay member...
CONCERT: The Boston University Brass Ensemble. Paul Gay conductor performs works by Gay, Rautowaara and Cobone, Concert Hall...